DovBer MarchettE

Marchette's painting develops the strength of color.

There are five colors that Dov Ber Marchette uses mainly in his works: blue, yellow, brown, green and white. Colors can be intense or soft but always dominant.

Color becomes a symbol of vitality and takes on symbolic values. Through the colors now intense with large backgrounds, now more subdued with plays of shades Dov BerMarchette expresses his emotions.

In his works also the sign, the points and the lines have the same value of color.

The lines are now soft brush games, grids and lattices, now sinuous rhythms, loads of movement.

Some lines recall others in a game of equilibrium that could continue without interruption, others take on definite or undefined forms as if they were fantasies, dreams or visions.

These are visions when they appear in his works, or are just perceived, moving figures that seem to be placed there for fun or waiting for some event.

Every visual stimulus can be a starting point for him, the idea, the concept to be fixed on the canvas: a tree, a starry sky but also signs, stains on the walls, wood grain and his collages, his paintings, objects, his sculptures are born incorporating those stimuli.

His art is born from the idea; the idea is for him the essence of creativity that takes

shape through the creative process. In his art, Dov Ber Marchettte represents what he sees through the concept and the idea is the psychology of form.

Dov Ber Marchette retraces the history of modernism from Millet to Sol Lewitt

In his works he does not underestimate any element for the harmonic effectiveness of the whole. He often likes to combine fragments of different materials: wood, paper, copper with pictorial elements and in the sculptures he also uses objects of daily use, recovery and above all wood and using only simple tables offers the viewer only the material stimulus, leaving him free in the interpretation and use of what he sees.

It is these natural resources "the available resources" of which he speaks and which he always uses in search of the "purity of the object"

"... .I have established some constraints for my work, including the use of five colors, as well as working with certain numbers and grids.

I start every single piece with the creation of a new context, for example with the construction of a wooden structure that will later become the arena for free creative expression.

Once the context is set, the object takes its form.

"Moment collected" are both real and imaginary experiences that occur during the construction of the object and integrate into the piece.

"Art and life are not separated" says DovBer Marchette talking about his art.

Each painting by DovBer Marchette represents one of his personal adventure, a way of expressing himself and interpreting emotions through his art, which can be defined as informal, visionary, abstract, conceptual, especially Unica.

-- Gabrielle Didi, curator